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| JOHN HAWKINS |
Founding Partner
As a singer, guitarist and bass guitarist for various groups over the years, John Hawkins is as comfortable on the stage as behind it. In the case of Better Mississippi Group LLC, he’s working behind the stage as a founding partner of Mississippi’s most current issues management organization.
“There has long been a need among various groups here in Mississippi for a central voice and a go-to place for messaging and issues management,” Hawkins said. “We wanted something that wasn’t partisan or political to tell the stories that affect Mississippians in their everyday lives.
“Better Mississippi Group is a hybrid organization. Not quite a PR firm, not quite a news outlet, but rather an all round entity dedicated to providing important and timely information on the things that matter to Mississippians,” he said.
“In short, it’s an idea whose time has come, and I’m proud to be a part of it,” he said.
Hawkins is a well-known figure in the arts community of the metro Jackson area. Currently serving as president of the Jackson Arts and Music Foundation, Hawkins is a Jackson native who served as a board member of the Belhaven Improvement Association and has assisted the Greater Belhaven Security Association. Hawkins spends a lot of his free time working to make his neighborhood and the larger community a better place to live.
He’s contributed time, money and effort to the important work of Operation Shoestring and Stewpot as the charitable organizations strive to help impoverished Jacksonians improve their lives through education and healthy choices. Hawkins and his law partners have also given to other worthy causes such as the art re-mix events at the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Mississippi.
A St. Andrew’s graduate, Hawkins holds an undergraduate degree from Millsaps College and a juris doctor from Tulane University School of Law. He is a partner in the law firm of Hawkins, Stracener & Gibson, PLLC in Jackson, and is currently a member of the Mississippi Bar’s Rules on Professional Responsibility Committee which oversees the ethics standards for lawyers. He is a Life Member and an ex officio member of the Board of Governors of the Mississippi Association for Justice for which he served as President in 2007.
He and his wife Dorothy are the parents of three boys, Jack, Henry and Miles.
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